We're approaching $1.30 a litre for gas in this city. Seriously, the local gas station is selling regular unleaded for $1.27 a litre. Four years ago this week, I was ticked at the fact we were approaching a buck a litre. I even have a note about the
Toronto's public school board has approved an Africentric school in an empty wing of Sheppard Public School on Sheppard Ave. W. near Keele St. The school will open in September 2009. Canadian Thinker calls it "a sad day for Canada", but I don't think it's that simple. Here's what Canadian
James had something he wanted to tell me tonight. "I know what the f-word is," he said. For a moment I thought maybe he knew another f-word. He's only six years old and still in senior kindergarten, so how could he know the f-word? I asked him what the f-word
I'm always looking for the next big thing. A Google search for "* is the next big thing" gives me a list of items that may be the next big thing. Qwertyluxury cruisingAmy Davidsontable-based layoutsmallboutique gymsbevolutionstreamingC'mon, table-based layout? That's so 1998. Everyone knows CSS-based layouts are the next big thing.
I share an MP3 from my collection every Wednesday. You have seven days to grab this week's MP3. Please right-click your mouse and select "Save Link As..." or "Save target as..." so you can download it to your PC before playing. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Piece of Crap
I'm featuring 1988 Topps Cards featuring members of my beloved Blue Jays that are featured on this blog. Fred McGriff was a fantastic first basemen for the Jays who led the American League in homers back in 1989, but he's best known around here as a key part of The
I wish a didn't watch American Idol. I've managed to completly avoid such craptacular game shows as Dancing With the Stars, Don't Forget the Lyrics and America's Next Top Model, but I've always been strangely drawn to American Idol. It would be easy to say I just watch it with
Mom, if you're reading this, there's something that's bugging me. How is it that I'm 33 years old and I've never played a single game of organized soccer outside of gym class? My brothers both played. My son plays. It's actually got the highest participation rate in the country. Everyone,
A friend of mine is selling this great portable salad bar. It's ideal for small spaces and also can be used as a buffet for private parties. Cambro's Ultra Bar can go anywhere and serve anything. Foam insulation provides excellent temperature retention for hot or cold foods. Sliding doors on
Ladies and gentlemen, we have our Stanley Cup final. It's the Penguins vs. Red Wings, which is a great match-up in my humble opinion. HNIC showed a little factoid about Sid the Kid getting the finals earlier than Gretzky or Lemieux. The Penguins turnaround has been fast and furious. In
Every Monday I shuffle my entire MP3 collection in iTunes and list the first ten songs that played. Here are the ten tunes I heard today with a personal story about one of them. Wild Horses - Rolling StonesWhole Lotta Love - Led ZeppelinIn My Secret Life - Leonard CohenLithium
We've got the day off here in the T.Dot, thanks to Queen Vicky, so I'm going to step in the wayback machine and see what I was writing about on this date four years ago. I was writing about Sum 41, a band I really, really wanted to like.
Hear and Now: 8 out of 10. Irene Taylor Brodsky's parents were born deaf. They lived full lives, raised three children and, at the age of 65, decided to receive a complex surgical implant, which allows them to experience sound for the first time. This documentary from HBO is about
I'm a big Gord Downie fan, and I was immediately intrigued when I heard he was guesting on the new City and Colour album. Shortly thereafter I heard the song and loved it so much I had to share it with everybody. It's a sweet blend when Dallas Green's voice
YouTube has become such a ubiquitous facet of the web, it's hard to believe this year's American presidential election will be the first one since YouTube was created back in 2005. Before YouTube, we had video on the web, but we didn't have dummy-proof embedding that makes it laughably easy
From the moment they announced they were making a new Indiana Jones movie, I didn't like it. As a kid, I loved the trilogy. Next to the Star Wars trilogy, the Indiana Jones films were money in the bank to this youngster. Still, from the moment I heard there'd be
A few years ago, I live blogged a Canada ~ Russia World Junior Hockey Championship game and it was a lot of fun. We won that one, and as I type the puck has dropped in the World Hockey Championship as we host Russia in the gold medal match. James and
Pop quiz, hotshot. What's the mathematical probability that two conference final teams, down 3 games to 0, come back and win their respective series in seven games? If my math is correct, I give it a 0.03221% chance of happening, and that's why you'll probably see the Penguins advance
Spider-Man 3: 5.5 out of 10. About four years ago I was thanking Sam Raimi in this space. I had just seen Spider-Man 2, and I liked it even better than Spider-Man, a film I thought was great. Here's what I wrote that day. It would have been so
I'm an RSS guy, but I'm also a realist. I get the fact that most people still don't know what the hell RSS is, how to subscribe to an RSS feed and why somebody would ever want to do that. My RSS feeds are how I read 90% of my
Canadian Thinker is calling it "scary stuff". I think that's an understatement. The CRTC has reversed it's 1999 promise to stay out of the realm of cyber space and is now looking at limiting Canadians' access to online broadcasters and Internet-based radio stations. It may also see a levy charged
Andy Baio dove into the Whitburn Project data and came up with some interesting facts about one-hit wonders. For the last ten years, obsessive record collectors in Usenet have been working on the Whitburn Project — a huge undertaking to preserve and share high-quality recordings of every popular song since the
Browsing the news at CBC.ca, there was a headline I had to read twice. Actually, I had to read it three times. Sean Avery starts internship at Vogue
Our Blue Jays are a little streaky this season. After a dismal stretch when our bats turned to dust, we've now won four in a row. Since we're doin' it right, it's time for another Blue Jays song. This is "Doin' It Right (On the Jays Side Of Town)" by
My favourite Beck songs Where It's AtPay No Mind (Snoozer)Devils HaircutFucking With My Head (Mountain Dew Rock)Loser
